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ESV Bible Blog quoted Andrew Ow’s explanation on “propitiation”, and showed why the English Standard Bible chose this theological terminology in translating “hilasmos”. I remembered a good illustration from the Mid-Year Conference 3-4 years ago, where “propitiation” used by ESV is constrasted against “expiation” used by RSV. “Propitiation” means “dealing with one’s anger”, and it [...]

Not really sure what’s going on out there, but I guess politicians are just there doing what they are best at. At the end, does Coalition benefit from it? Maybe. What about Labor? Maybe not. Australians? I don’t think so. If we want to see fights, we vote them (off) the reality shows. Not into [...]

I had a great weekend a few days ago, at the Copacabana beach near the Gosford (no, not the one in Brazil), almost two hours drive from Sydney Eastern suburbs. The weather is nice, the beach is very nice, and the houses we rent are very very nice. It is almost a glimpse of heaven.

I always enjoyed using Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Extension when working with web pages on Firefox, and I have always hoped for something similar on Internet Explorer, as in this inperfect world, web developers do need to bow down to some of those inferior but more popular browsers out there. However, my dream has turned [...]

Baa! They are everywhere. Techies at work forced everyone’s desktop wallpaper to display the Swannies’ logo via ActiveDirectory. Our CRM website changed its theme to that ugly red and white. Even my moblie phone keeps on flashing “Go Swannies”, as the phrase has been injected by the Optus base stations. Who are they anyway?! Crazy…

Three weeks ago I blogged about WordPress.com‘s invitation, and today I received the following email: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog. We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today! Yeah! So here we [...]

Two weeks ago the big “A” asked whether I am interested in working for them in that far far away land in Seattle. Too much to travel so I reclined. However, if anyone in Sydney who is interested in software engineering job with a big online retailer, and do not mind relocating to the States [...]

Opera turned 10 last month, and gave away free registration code. I guess they must have been overwhelmed by the response, and now they are giving away their browser for free — forever! They have free Opera for most modern desktop operating systems. Download Opera 8.50 today, otherwise you might not know what you have [...]

No. Not this one (I wish). Nor this one (I truly wish). But NAB’s Visa Mini credit card, which I have previous reviewed here. Went to a NAB branch after lunch today to pick up the card. Waited for half an hour, an came back with the “pack”. Besides instructions and other terms and conditions, [...]

I hate referrer spams.

Almost two weeks ago I launched my new programming/Internet blogsite. It does not make me write more — actually due to my current schedules I actually wrote less. All it did was splitting up the content, so that my programming and Internet related posts get filed elsewhere. Good idea, as I have originally thought, and [...]

This morning, before I left for work, I was helping Anna to learn to walk. Holding hands, little step by little step, and she enjoyed dragging daddy around the house. She can toddle for an amazing long distance, but not by herself — she still needs to hold onto someone. Then a thought bubbled up [...]

Well, I am a little bit late to the party of cheerers, but here I am — someone who is really glad that Google has made available their beta Google Blog Search. What does it have? Search through feeds (too bad for those blogs expose none or partial feeds). Google’s trademark simplicity. Search logic — [...]

Further improvement has been made to the Search Engine Highlight Javascript, which has recently been moved from my personal website to FuCoder.com. Here are the changes: Rewrite the parsing engine to use DOM instead of resetting the HTML. Easier customisation on search engines. Use Javascript Cruncher for distribution. Download the SE-Hilite 1.3 (2.7kb, zip). See [...]

On-line auction company eBay has acquired VoIP company Skype for around USD$2.6billion in cash and stock. PR from Skype. Announcement news from eBay. I have in fact just started using Skype (ID: sc077y4n6), mainly to talk to parents and other relatives overseas. I do not really approve Skype’s P2P-like protocol as it really poke holes [...]